This post was originally published on medium.com but has kindly been re-posted to the NHS-R community blog. In September 2019, […]
This post was originally published on medium.com but has kindly been re-posted to the NHS-R community blog. In September 2019, […]
This post was originally published on johnmackintosh.com but has kindly been re-posted to the NHS-R community blog. Background The NHSRdatasets package made […]
One of the greatest benefits of using R over spreadsheets is that it's very easy to re-use and re-purpose code. Learn how to write functions to further improve your code re-usability and cut down on errors.
The Strategy Unit, AphA (Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts) and NHS-R joined forces to deliver the first ever train the […]
My journey to work takes me about an hour and a half, and I catch a couple of buses with […]
R Users Leeds Why create a group ? Trying to learn R is tricky, there are so many ways to […]
My journey into data science took a baby step a few years ago when I learned SQL during my global […]
We really enjoyed our second ever NHS-R conference in Birmingham, which was attended by about 300 delegates. We tried to […]
This post briefly introduces an R package created for the NHS-R Community to help us learn and teach R. Firstly, […]
I suspect there are many blogs about R and why it’s so great: It’s free! It’s open source! There’s a […]
Exact matching in R: a case study of the health and care costs associated with living alone, using linked data […]
It’s at this time of year I need to renew my season ticket and I usually get one for the […]
Getting data into R One of the things I found most difficult when learning R was getting data from our SQL Servers […]
Funnel plots Funnel plots are a common tool for comparing organisations or units using proportions or standardised rates. A common […]
Down in the South West of England we at the PenCHORD team of the NIHR CLAHRC South West Peninsula have […]
When Mohammed asked if I would be interested in doing a blog on how “we”, Information and Analytics in NHS […]
Background A Public Health consultant colleague Ian Bowns (@IantheBee) created a report to monitor mortality within the Trust and he […]
Every Thursday during winter, roughly from December to March, NHS Digital releases a week’s worth of hospital performance data, known as […]
I was interested in creating an animated graph […]
Understanding variation using runs analysis Run charts are simple and powerful tools that help discriminate between random and non-random variation […]
